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Palliative Care

Palliative care is a special kind of health care for people who are living with a serious or complex illness. The goal is to provide the best quality of life for patients with an advanced disease or terminal illness by ensuring their comfort and dignity. Services may address:

Managing lifestyle goals around new physical limits

Finding meaning in illness

Managing pain with other symptoms

Dealing with new family issues

Finding support for a caregiver

Reevaluating changing goals of care

Palliative care uses a team approach to meet not only physical needs, but psychological, social, cultural, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and his or her family.